Philip Branch is an Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. Before joining Swinburne he was Development Manager of Interception Management Systems with Ericsson AsiaPacific Labs, responsible for the development of key interception systems sold by Ericsson worldwide. His research interests are in the broad area of distributed applications and the network architectures necessary to support them, which he investigates within the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA)